I got a photo with Sven Goran Eriksson when he was Leicester City FC manager a decade or so ago.

Hardly The Queen, but he’s a significant improvement over my #2. (Samantha Bailey).

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    KCIII back in the 70s, when he visited the factory I worked at, Cossor, in Harlow.

    Shook my hand and called me by my nickname that was on a sign on the front of my workbench.

    At the end of the visit, everyone was outside to building to wave the Kingy to be off, one of the the blokes wives ran out and kissed him on the cheek. It made national news and before long was happening every time he went somewhere.

    ISTR he actually flew the helicopter off himself.

    The next day someone had added ‘By Royal Appointment’ to my sign.

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      9 months ago

      Took me a minute to work out what the hell a KCIII was, but for fucksake do I have to figure out ISTR too?

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          TT, BIWHBEFBOUIYHJFTT

          Bloody hell, do I have to explain everything… Duh, it means “Thanks Ted, But It Would Have Been Easier For Both Of Us If You Had Just Fuckin Typed That”

          😁

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            9 months ago

            I thought it was commonly used online. I first saw it when I used to use Compuserve with my 14.4kbps modem.

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          I’ve not seen this before.

          IIRC - “If I remember correctly” is the normal phrase I’ve seen.

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        I’m not surprised, it should of course be CIIIR ;-P